Past News & Events

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  Faculty Newsletter - June 2015 (PDF)

  Jun 1, 2015
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  UC Berkeley MOOC Advisor sharing on online education

  by Professor Armando Fox

  May 26, 2015

  Armando Fox is a Professor in Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Department and the Faculty Advisor to the UC Berkeley MOOCLab. With his colleague David Patterson, he co-designed and...
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  Atlas getting ready for DARPA Robotics Challenge

  May 20, 2015

  Atlas is Back! Built by the Boston Dynamics Incorporation in the USA, HKU’s Atlas is one of the 7 full-sized humanoid Atlas robots in the world. Research on humanoid robots serves as one of the objectives...
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  The Financial Secretary sees huge potential in robotics

  May 18, 2015

  Financial Secretary and Dean with HKU’s humanoid robot Atlas On May 18, 2015, the honorable Mr. John Tsang, GBM, JP, Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government, spent an afternoon at the Engineering...
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  Mechanical Engineering researchers achieve breakthrough in automobile steel

  May 14, 2015

  A research team led by Dr. Huang Mingxin at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of HKU has developed a new generation of ultrahigh strength steels. The innovation has met, 10 years in advance, the...
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  Outreach on 3D Printing

  May 5, 2015

  Over 100 people from the education sectors, NGOs and industry participated in the "HKU symposium on 3D Printing for Education" which was held on May 5, 2015...
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  Primary and secondary school students compete to measure sea level

  May 3, 2015

  he Sea Level Measurement Device Design Competition is jointly organised by the HKU Faculty of Engineering, the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO), and the Hong Kong Meteorological Society (HKMetSoc)...
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  The Hong Kong Robot Olympiad 2015

  May 2, 2015

  The Hong Kong Robot Olympiad 2015 In order to promote science and technology among primary and secondary school students, the Faculty of Engineering has been working with the Hong Kong Robotic Olympic...
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  Awarded to research into electrochemical actuation of nanoporous materials

  May 1, 2015

  Dr. Chuan Cheng, a Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2013 PhD graduate at Prof. Alfonso H. W. Ngan’s research group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research...
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  Four project teams awarded funding to cultivate entrepreneurship

  Apr 30, 2015

  A new funding scheme called “Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU)” was launched by the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) of the HKSAR Government in October 2014 to cultivate...